[50] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
      - The Royal Terrace
        Number 5, Royal Terrace
        Preliminary designs and finished drawing for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/31

Purpose

[50] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the back drawing room, 1769; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central rosette, encircled by enclosed acanthus leaves, and a circular frame, encircled by rinceaux, accompanied by an x-shaped arrangement, and set within a lozenge-shaped frame, encircled by four enclosed rosettes, and the whole is set within an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, encircled by four corner compartments containing rinceaux and anthemia, alternating with rectangular compartments containing rosettes and calyx enclosed within lozenges, and the whole is set within a border of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the back Drawing room at No. 6. Royal Terrace Adelphi / (and in pencil) Mr [ _ _ _ _ _ _]k No 6 and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including olive green and Indian red within a single ruled border on laid paper (511 x 451)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
Rowan, 2007, p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

'Every Look Speaks': Portraits of David Garrick, The Holburne Museum, Bath, 16 September - 9 December 2003
Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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